Health-care plan is constitutional

Wednesday

I respond to the Saturday letter, "Ohio should vote to nullify Obamacare," from Robert M. Owens, the Constitution Party's candidate for Ohio attorney general.

I respond to the Saturday letter, “Ohio should vote to nullify Obamacare,” from Robert M. Owens, the Constitution Party’s candidate for Ohio attorney general.

President Barack Obama's health-care plan does not violate the U.S. Constitution as Owens stated. As a candidate of the Constitution Party, he should revisit it.

Using Owens’ example, Article I, Section 8, states that the Congress shall have the power to provide for the general welfare. This tenet is also mentioned, of course, in the preamble where the Founding Fathers wished “to promote the general welfare.” Thus, the federal government under Obama has the right, indeed the duty, to promote the well-being of the people by providing health-care coverage.

Sadly, the plan passed by the Congress does not provide coverage for everyone, but it is a good start. Owens and other detractors should spend their time, effort and money to help improve the Obama health-care plan. Attempts to call it unconstitutional are simply not true and help no one.

As President Theodore Roosevelt once said, “The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.”

TERRY CAMPBELL

Canal Winchester

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